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GREENE COUNTY

HISTORY

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GREENE & SULLIVAN 1884 HISTORY

HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

CHAPTER I.HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY, Geology BY PROF. E. T. COX, STATE GEOLOGIST

CHAPTER IV.EARLY LAND ENTRIES- THE COUNTY LIBRARY- TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES-
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS- THE AICCLURE LIBRARY- THE COUNTY SEMINARY- ITS FIELD OF USEFULNESS- POPULATION BY DECADES- VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST- THE COUNTY PAUPERS- THE ASYLUM- TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY ALTERATIONS- THE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY- ITS REORGANIZATION- RAILROADS- STATISTICS.

CHAPTER V.THE COUNTY DRAINAGE- AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES- EQUESTRIAN AND LIVE
STOCK FAIRS- THE VARIOUS HE-ORGANIZATIONS- COUNTY FINANCES- STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES- BONDS AND BRIDGES- THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL- ORIGIN OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS- SPECIAL SCHOOLREVENUE- STATISTICS- EARLY ACTION ON THE FREE SCHOOL SYSTEM- EARLY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE- CATALOGUE OF COUNTY OFFICERS- POLITICS- THEBALLOT OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

CHAPTER VII. BY COL. E. H. C. CAVISS.ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS- JURISDICTION OF THECOURT- THE FIRST TERM- JUDGE HUGHES- HUMOROUS INCIDENTS-FIRST CASE OF BARRATRY- PECULIAR SUITS- THE MURDER OF JAMES RAINWATER- TRIAL OF DR. MEUSE- MURDER OF JOSHUA HOLDING-ARREST OF WILLIAM
BUCKNER- HIS ESCAPE- PERSONAL INOTES- THE BENNETT-PATTERSON SLANDER SUIT- OTHER CRIMINAL ACTS- MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN- INCIDENTS- "THE AUBURN-HAIRED CHILDOF DESTINY "- DEATHS OF EMINENT MEN- MURDER OF JACOB SICKLER-ARREST AND TRIAL OF JOHN ROSE- HIS CONVICTION AND PARDON- THE CARIS LAND CASES-MURDER OF ELIHU HARDIN- SENTENCE OF JOHN HUEY- CATALOGUE OF ATTORNEYS.

Chapter VIII - - THE COUNTY MILITIA—THE ANNUAL MUSTERS— SOLDIERS OF
THE MEXICAN WAR—ROUSSEAU'S COMPANY—ROLL OF HONOR—PUBLIC SENTIMENT AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION—OPENING SCENES OF THEWAR— FIRST WAR MEETING AT WORTHINGTON—THE MEETING AT BLOOMFIELB— THE FIRST VOLUNTEERS—FORMATION OF COMPANIES—FIRST ORGANIZATION FOR THE WAR—CHEAT MOUNTAIN CAMPAIGN—INCIDENTS FROM THE FIELD—JUNCTION WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC—THE VETERANS—PERSONAL RECORD AND ROLL OF HONOR.

CHAPTER IX - - WAR HISTORY CONTINUED—THE SECOND COMPANY FOR THE
FIELD— PERSONAL RECORD— CONTINUED ENLISTMENTS—THE FOURTH
OF JULY— THE COMPANY OF CAPT. SQUIRE— INDIVIDUAL RECORD— OTHER
COMPANIES FURNISHED— CAPT. BEATY'S MEN— RENEWED VOLUNTEERING—
JUDGE CAVIN'S FAMILY— COMPANY OF CAPT. A. G. CAVINS— GODFREY SHRYER'S
EFFORTS—SKETCH OF THE FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT— COULSON'S BATTERY —THE
FIFTIETH REGIMENT—MISCELLANEOUS WAR XOTES— FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATIONS — ADDITIONAL ENLISTMENTS—THE COMPANY OF CAPT.
STARNES—OTHER VOLUNTEERS— ENROLLMENT OF THE MILITIA-BATTLE OF
RICHMOND, KY.— FIRST DRAFT OF THE WAR— COMPANY K, EIGHTIETH
REGIMENT— COMPANY K, EIGHTY-FIFTH REGIMENT.

Chapter X
WAR HISTORY CONCLUDED—THE NINETY-SEVENTH REGIMENT—ITS
MOVEMENTS— ADVANCE TO MEMPHIS— BATTLE OF MISSION RIDGE—LADIES IN
CAMP—THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN— BATTLE OF KENESAW MOUNTAIN— ON THE
OCEAN—BURNING OF COLUMBIA—"HOMEWARD BOUND"— OFFICERS, FIELD AND
STAFF— INDIVIDUAL RECORD OF THE COMPANIES-LOYALTY AND DISLOYALTY IN
GREENE COUNTY—INTERESTING ITEMS— CAPT. BRYAN'S COMPANY—FOURTH OF
JULY—RECRUITING— THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN—THE SECOND DRAFT—
SUMMARY OF MEN FURNISHED —LADIES' AND SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETIES—
BOUNTY AND RELIEF.
*This excellent sketch of the Ninety-seventh Regiment was prepared and furnished for this volume
by Capt. John D. Alexander.

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